Kodaikanal Solar Magnetic Study: Century-Long Data Reveals the Sun’s Past and Future Cycles
The Kodaikanal Solar Magnetic Study has enabled astronomers to reconstruct the Sun’s polar magnetic field over the past century by analyzing digitized historical images from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO). By combining this unmatched archive with modern data from Italy’s Rome-PSPT telescope and applying advanced AI algorithms, researchers identified faint bright features near the Sun’s…